A Law Dictionary and Glossary

/. ?., Dismes, i./r. In Englisih ecclesiastical the tenth part of the annual profit of livings, claimed of the clergy by the papal see, and of the royal revenue, v. Tithes.

desiner,desnier, dezyner.angiZ-norm. In of a decennary, or tithing; a hand-borow. v.

The result of deliberation; the judicial question. Decision, rules of: the laws of the federal courts, except where treaties or the statutes otherwise require.

In the civil law. A one of the parties, not being able to prove his the decision of the cause to the oath of his taken, v. Saeramentum decisionis.

I I In old English law. Proclamation.

A person who declares, who afl Srms a

A statement explicitly made; the plaintiff of his cause of action; the first pleading a count V. Dying declaration. Declaration by which an alien declares, before a court of to bec

In Scots law. An actioil by which thing to be declared in his favor.

Making certain what otherwise doubtful; explanatory; aflirmatory. Declaratory ute which, instead of introducing a new law, the existing law. In Scots law. Declaratory action: an ac

To announce or af Srm as a fact; to state nesses; to state a cause of action in accordance pleading.

In old English law. The plea benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction. law. Tithes; tenths; or benefices, formerly afterwards made a part old English law. One Decennary; Fribo

In Scots law. To object to. Declined: objected to.

L In the Roman law. A kind of provincial senator; a member of a council or senate established in all the great towns in the provinces, constituting a kind of municipal corporation.

I I. In Saxon law, A tithing or decennary.

I In the Roman law. The ofi Sce of a decurio.

I. In the Roman law. A bankrupt; a spendthrift; one who squandered the public money.

I. In old English and Scots law. The punishment of beheading; decollation. Deco Uat': beheaded.

A letter prepared and posted with a view to the detection of a criminal.

The judgment of a court of equity or admiralty, answering to the judgment of a court of common law. It is final where it disposes of the suit; interlocutory whex-e it disposes of s

In Scots law. The decree, judgment or sentence of a court Decreet absol Titor: a decree dismissing a claim, or acquitting a defendant Decreet arbitral: an award of arbitrators. Dec

I. In old English law. Decrease of the sea; the receding of the sea from the land. v. Reliction.

decretals, 1. 1. In ecclesiastical law. The second of the two great divisions of the Corpus Juris Canonici. Decretales (jlregorii Noni: decretals of Gregory the Ninth; a collection

I. In the civil law. A species of imperial constitution, being a judgment given by the emperor upon the hearing of a cause. In the canon law. An ecclesiastical law, in contradistin

In the nature of a decree. Decretal order: an order-vyhich, in an event the result of a direction therein, may lead to the termination of the suit in the manner of a decree at the

dedeinz, dedeynz, dedinz, dedeiiz, dedans, dedaynes, 2. /r. Within; in. Dedeins la vierge: within the verga Dedens age: within aga

I. I have given; the operative and proper word of conveyance in ancient charters of feoffment, and deeds of gift and grant Dedi, concessi, barganizavi et feoffavi: I have given, gr

The appropriation of private property, commonly land, to public uses, either by a formal act on the part of the owner, or by acts from which an appropriation may be legally presume

I I. To deny. Dedicta, dedictnm: denied.

We have gi'Ven; a commission to take testimony. Dedimug et concessimns: we have given and granted. In American law. Dedimns potestatem: we have given power; sometimes applied to a

I fr. To deny. Dedit, deditz: denied.

/. To have given. Dedisse et concessisse: to have given and granted, or [that I] have given and granted; operative words in. ancient charters of feoffment and deeds of grant, v. De

I L Hath given and granted; operative words in ancient charters of feoffment and deeds of grant, where the conveyance was by indenture.

2. An inferior kind of freedmen at one time recognized by the Roman law.

I In old English law. To bring; to deduct Dedticere ren» in judicium: to bring a thing into court; to make it the subject of judicial investigation. Deducto eere alieno: deducting

Lat. In civil, ecclesiastical, and old European law. An officer having supervision over ten; a dean. Decanus episcopi: a bishop's or rural dean, presiding over ten clerks or parish

A fact or act; a writing sealed and and delivered more especially as a dented: a deed executed in parts, as arated by cutting in a curved or Deed poll: a deed executed in one havin

demster. A kind of judge in all controversies without process, writings ster.

1. 1, Defalcation. In old ment

1. 1. In old English law. Default default Defaltam sanare: to cure a

The speaking or writing of good fame. Written defamation is defamation slander, v. Libel; Slander.

Omission; neglect or failure; of duty; failure to appear or to plead

defeazance. A collateral deed shall be void upon the happening or the ditions.

L, Defect. Deficiency; imperfection Defectus exitns: default of issue, v.

A resistance of an attack; the to the plaintiff's action, by demurrer equity; all the proceedings on the part delay or defeat the suit v. Full defence;

defense, I. fr. In old English refusal; a state of severalty, or of a state of enclosui-e. v. Defensum;

To oppose or resist a claim at law ing, to deny, as in the phrase " comes merely that the defendant comes and V. Defendemus. In old English law. To prohibit or forbid appropriata v

I fr. In old English law. delivered; a writing sealed conveyance of land. Deed inmany as there are parties, sepindented lina v. Indenture. part, — by one party only, and declare ns

D«fendaunt, I fr. and eng. tion at law or a suit in equity is brought

Z. I In old English law. We will defend A word used in feoffments or gifts, by which the donor or his heirs were bound to defend the donee against any attempt to encumber the thing

v. Defendendo.

In Scots law. A defendant

defendre, I fr. In old English law. To deny; to prohibit or forbid; to prevent; to defend or offer to defend.

I L To prohibit or forbid; to appropriate; to enclose; to defend or deny. Defendere se debet in primis sic, omnem feloniam defendit: he ought to defend himself in the first place t

Z. I. He defends the force and injury.

L fr. A defender or defendant; the party accused in an appeal.

/, I In old English law. A park or place fenced in for deer and defended as a property.

defentio, I. I. In old English law. Defense; prohibition. Defensio contra sectam: defense against the suit Defensio riparise: prohibition to use a river; exclusive appropriation to

In English ecclesiastical law. A plea setting up facts in defense, and as to which the defendant may have an answer under oath.

I. In old English law. A defender or defendant; a warrantor of title. In the canon law. A protector or advocate of a church; a provincial officer having charge of the patrimony of

I I. In old English law. An enclosure, or any fenced ground; a part of an open field, appropriated to a particular use, as for hay; a state of several occupancy or appropriation; d

The final judgment of an ecclesiastical court

non potest esse liaeres, I One blood wanting, he cannot be heir.

L In the civil law. Definition; exposition; the explanation of a thing, including, as within a circumscribed line or limit, everything pertaining to it; theestablishmentof a genera

Deforciare, l, Deforcer, I. fr. In English law. To withhold lands or tenements from the owner. In Scots law. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force a public ofi Bce

In English law. A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding of lands or tenements from the owner. In Soots law. The opposition or resistance made to public ofl Bcers en

In English law. One who deforces another, v. Deforce; Deforcement.

defortians, 1 1. In old English law. A deforciant

In English law. One who deforces another; the person against whom the fictitious action of fine was brought; the defendant in assise of darrein presentment.

defortiare, deforceare, H In old English law. To withhold lands or tenements from the right owner; to deforce. Deforciat, deforceat: he deforces.

I I. In old English law. A distress, or seizure of goods for satisfaction of a lawful debt

I. fr. To run away; to elope. Defuiannt: running away. Defaont: run away.

In Scots law. Deceased; a deceased person,

2. In the civil and old English law. Defunct; deceased; a deceased person.

I. fr. To give security; to deliver on gage or security.

I. fr. To waste. Degast, degaste, degata: wasted, destroyed.

In English law. Deprivation of dignity or rank; the depriving of a peer of his nobility, or a clergyman of his holy orders and ecclesiastical distinctions.

One of a series of steps upward or downward. Degree of relationship: a step In kinship, reckoning, in the canon law, from the person furthest from the common ancestor to the ancest

I. By the grace of God. Dei judicium: the judgment of God; the Saxon trial by ordeal, v. Judicium Dei,

In Scots law. To accusa Delated, latit off arte and parte: accused of being

I In the civil law. An accusation or

I In the civil law. An informer; an

I. fr. In old English law. Of V. De bene esse. Del coiisail: of counsel. ory ne court: from time whereof memory

ital. Of belief, trust or warranty; which a factor, in consideration of an gages to warrant the solvency of one to whom guaranty. Del credere commission: the thus agreed upon.

I. The choice of a person; a right of a partner to determine what persons the firm as new partners. In Scots law. The presumed choice of a person, certain deeds is supposed to have

I In old English law. To assign; to to delegate; to appoint a substitute. In the civil law. To substitute another in one's egare est vice sua alium renm dare creditor! delegate is

In the civil law. The substitution other; a species of novation.

delegata, I. Delegated, deputed, to act for another; transferred or assigned. potest delegari: a delegated power cannot be debitor est odiosus in lege: a delegated Delegatus non po

sc In Scots laiv. To erase; to strike out Deliberandum est diu quod statuendnm est to be resolved once for all should be long

Z. In old English law. To deliver. Deliberabitur: shall be delivered. Deliberatum, liberata: delivered. Deliberari facias: you livered. In the civil law. To deliberate; to consult;

IL In old English law. Delivery well being; of form. Del temps dount memrunneth not an agreement by additional commission, enhe sells; a species of additional commission delatit: a

I A crime; a violation of law, either tort or wrong; guilt, fault or blame, v. Ex

L To omit a duty; to fail to perform transgress, v. Debet quis, etc.

I. fr. Out of; beyond; foreign to. Dehors the record: foreign to the record.

In Scots law. The verdict of a

The transfer of a deed to the grantee in his behalf, — either absolute, or to a third escrow; a transfer of goods from seller to symbolical, as by delivery of a key, a bill of Deli

Demesne, demaine, demayne, demaygne, I. Jr. In old English law. A lord's chief lands thereto belonging, which he and his out of mind, kept in their own hands or manual mesne; Domin

To make a request under claim ofspecified thing; to summon; to call in court.

A legal obligation; a request made the doing of a specified thing.

L I. In old English law. A demand.

The party suing in a real action,